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Yang Xiaojian
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杨小健
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biography
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1960
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Yang Xiaojian, which literally translated means " strong athlete " was born in Taiyuan,
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capital of the Chinese province of Shanxi, into a very sports orientaded family.
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His father, Yang Shuiyin, head book-keeperat the Zhongyan glass Company in Taiyuan, |
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was one of the first official table tennis umpires in the Républic of China. |
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His mother, Yang Yueying, acknowledged by the authorities as a " national athlete " |
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beat the table tennis world champion three times. |
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1964
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As a child, he spent hours playing with colours, and drawing on the floor using red brick. |
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His mother taught art art a primary school, and gave him pictures to colour, and calligraphy |
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to copy. |
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1967
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He started at the Haibianjie primary school in Taiyuan. Here, he was able to take part
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in a variety of activities, and in the evenings he helped his mother to make copies
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of the newspapers, in order to earn some pocket-money. His written works was often
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shown to others as an example.
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1969
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He attended Nanhajiie school and helped illustrate the wall news.
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1970
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His mother was sent to the village Guxian. He accompanied her there and had a taste
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of hard agricultural work.
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1972
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He went back to school, where he showed a keen interest in reading.
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IIt was here that he first met Yie Qing who later became his wife.
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1976
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He joined the Army, PE Special Forces. In his spare time, or while he was on standby, |
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he spent his time doing calligraphy, on the floor, using a stick. |
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When this was noticed, the Army offered him the job of doing the lettering on military maps. |
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However Yang Xiaojian wanted to learn more, and in order to get hold of more calligraphy
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books, he wrote a letter which was published in the China Youth newspaper. As a result,
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he was sent hundreds of books, including one by Li Zhengshi 李正時, a teacher
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in Huangshi, whose calligraphy particularly impressed him. From that moment onwards,
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he could only think of one thing : that he wanted to study.
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1981
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He had to wait another year before being demobilised and enjoying a taste of independence. |
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He worked on different styles of ancient calligraphy with different teachers : |
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The Han dynasty, with Yuan Xulin 袁旭臨
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Li style with Yan Jun 閻俊
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Cursive style with Tian Shuchang 田樹萇
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1984
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He married Ye Qing |
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1985
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Birth of his daughter : Xibei
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1989
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He took part in a calligraphy competition for the first time, and won first prize; he then entered competitions on a regular basis, and the following year he won the gold medal
in Sanya, and third prize in Beijing. |
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1993
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Birth of his second daughter : Jiayuan
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1994
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His lenghthy discussions with professor Wang Yong 王鏞, the calligrapher,
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Zhao Lengyue 赵冷月 the well known artist, and Liu Jiu'an 劉九庵 of the Palace Museum,
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helped him make progress not only with his painting but in his way of thinking.
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1998
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After the death of his father, he decided to travel to Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand |
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with his mother. |
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1999
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He bought an appartment west of Shanghai in Kanghong Garden. |
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2000
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He travelled to Korea and to China : to Sanya and the Yunnan, Lijiang, to the mountains |
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of Yulong Snow and to Shangri-La, gathering ideas for paintings.
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He reads a great deal, and was interested in the painters Motherwell,
Dubuffet, Sulerque,
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Kooning, De Pierce. His work was becoming more abstract.
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2005
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In Shanghai, he set up his second studio " Base of Ink" at 50 Moganshanan Lu, and put his work on display.
He took part in a number of collective exhibitions of calligraphy and contemporary art, in Beijing, Seoul, Hong-Kong, Macau and Shanghai.
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2006
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Exhibitions of his work were held in Japan, at the Soukoku gallery in Kyoto and the North Kamakura gallery in Tokyo. |
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2007
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The Kyoto city Museum held an exhibition of his work. |
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Danièle Sicard
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works
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exhibitions
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solo exhibitions
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1992
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Japan
Kobe Kyoto Osaka
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2005
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Beijing Contemporary Gallery
Yang Xiaojiang - Wei Ligang
Picture of Triturate The Ink |
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Shanghai Base of Ink |
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2006
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Japan
Kyoto Soukoku Gallery
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Japan
Tokyo North Kamakura Gallery
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2007
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Beijing Twoline Gallery |
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Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
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France
Paris Julie et Hélène Gallery
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collective exhibitions
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1993
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Beijing
International Famous calligraphers
in 20th century
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1998
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Beijing China Art Gallery
7th exhibition of calligraphy and Seal cutting
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1999
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Beijing China Art Gallery
3rd exhibition for couplet writing
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2003
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Taiyuan
1st exhibition for Youngs and Mi-aged calligraphers'works in Shanxi
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Seoul
International Famous Calligraphers
exhibition
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Nanjing Art Museum
Fifteen Nominated Famous calligraphers
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2004
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Beijing Jinri Art Museum
2nd National exhibition for fashionable Writing style
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2005
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Hong Kong Art association
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Seoul
International Modern Calligraphy exhibition
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Shanghai Great Theatre Gallery
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Beijing O.C.Space
exhibition of contemporary Art
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Beijing To Day Arts Museum
Construct The Ink Map
Yang Xiaojian & Wei Ligang
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2006
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Beijing Shang-Shang Museum
exhibition of contemporary Art
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It's the friend. Who knows how to
reveal the intelligence of black.
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Clouds dissolved by the breeze, torn
apart. Absorbed by the paper.
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The destruction of writing to make it
speak. Evidence.Which shows its viscera.
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No aestheticism. Abstraction pure,
precise, sensitive, monumental. Where
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sometimes blankness is painted
white.
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Xiaojian has mastered all the media,
covering all the possibilities.
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His painting beats the chamade.
Today, Xiaojian reflects the heartbeat of the world.
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1989
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60 Poems of Xi Murong
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Pen Calligraphy collection
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1990
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300 Tang Poems
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Pen Calligraphy collection
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1991
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Wonder of Pen Calligraphy
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Pen Calligraphy collection
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2005
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Picture of Triturate the Ink
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Modern Calligraphy collection
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Construct the Ink Map
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A joint exhibitionof Contemporary Calligraphic paintings by : |
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Yang Xiaojian & Wei Ligang |
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29 cm x 24 cm
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219 pages |
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isbn : 962 85723 9 3
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2006
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My Empire of the Sun
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Pen Calligraphy collection
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Monograph of the works 1998 - 2006 by Yang Xiaojian
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29,5 cm x 25 cm in chinese and english
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Forewords : |
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Fan Di-An : From Calligraphy to Scripting
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Liu Xiao-Chun : A Calligrapher ink-brushing
in Beijing and Shanghai
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Tang Feng : The Wash-Ink Nietzsche
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many reproductions |
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350 pages |
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isbn : 962 86523 7 0
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2007
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MY 我的 2007
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The photography of Yang Xiaojian |
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21,5 cm x 23 cm
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Presentation : Makang - Men Cong |
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isbn : 978 988 17 150 2 9
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